Project dossier · Warren Township (Indianapolis) / Irvington, Indiana

DC Blox Warren Township (Thunderbird Commerce Center) Approved

Up to $2.2B (incl. IT equipment) campus at 305 Fintail Drive in the Thunderbird Commerce Center (former Ford Visteon plant site), near S. Kitley Ave. and the Pennsy Trail. Originally 3 buildings; scaled back on July 8, 2026 to 2 buildings, 25 fewer backup diesel generators, and 28 MW less power demand after community pushback. Exempted from Indianapolis's Aug. 19, 2026 citywide data-center moratorium as a previously-approved project. DC Blox says the project creates 35 permanent high-wage jobs.

Key facts

Operator
DC Blox
Owner
DC Blox
Location
Warren Township (Indianapolis) / Irvington, Indiana
First proposed
2026-04-27
Hearing
2026-06-11
Decided
2026-07-15
Stage today
Approved

Source
read 2026-09-02

What to do next

Next step: Approved — pivot from stopping it to a binding CBA: enforceable caps on noise, water and cost, plus a community benefit.

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What has happened so far (6 events)

  • 2026-04-27public-comment
    A community forum at Downey Avenue Christian Church drew Irvington/Warren Township residents to question the proposed $2 billion DC Blox data-center campus. · source
  • 2026-05-22coverage
    WFYI reported residents pushing back on the DC Blox proposal, citing noise, water use and energy-demand concerns on Indy's east side. · source
  • 2026-06-11hearing
    The MDC hearing examiner held a hearing on the DC Blox petition; residents said they felt they lacked a voice in the decision-making process. · source
  • 2026-07-08coverage
    DC Blox announced a scaled-back plan -- two buildings instead of three, 25 fewer backup diesel generators, and a wider buffer south of the Pennsy Trail -- citing community feedback. · source
  • 2026-07-15vote
    The Metropolitan Development Commission voted 6-1 to approve the scaled-back DC Blox data-center campus despite dozens of protesters outside the City-County Building. · source
  • 2026-08-19moratorium
    DC Blox was one of three already-approved Indianapolis projects explicitly exempted from the citywide data-center moratorium the MDC adopted 6-0. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 12 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

  • EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 39.766, -85.990 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
  • EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
  • EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “DC Blox Warren Township (Thunderbird Commerce Center)”, aigridwatch.com/projects/dc-blox-warren-township-in, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

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